The poll results come on the heels of the federal government's new H1N1 guidelines for schools
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A poll conducted by the American Red Cross shows that while a majority of Americans are planning to take precautions against the H1N1 viru...

Expert describes families as untapped resource in prevention efforts,,,,
FRIDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Many parents worry that their child may be the victim of medical errors while in the hospital, a new study has found.
In a survey of 278 parents of children hospitalized in 20...

Orthopaedic surgeons offer tips for keeping kids healthy at the start of the school year
ROSEMONT, Ill., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Parents are beginning to think about getting their children back to school in the weeks ahead. Shopping for school supplies and backpack...

WASHINGTON, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- New research by the national, nonprofit Home Safety Council (HSC) reveals that the vast majority of parents (83 percent) admit that they have left their toddler unsupervised in the home -- for a few moments, or even longer. The survey polled parents of...

NAPLES, Fla., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- AgingCare.com, a website dedicated to adult children caring for their elderly parents, has gathered the top ten issues that affect caregivers. These issues are the most popular topics on the AgingCare.com community forum ( www.agingcare.com/C...

WASHINGTON, July 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Amanda Crawford was just fifteen when she smoked her first cigarette. Now that she is 45, she still smokes despite having tried to quit multiple times. Children are fifty percent more likely to start smoking if they have a parent w...

National immunization program reaches more than 11,000 churches since
its launch in April
CHEVY CHASE, Md., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In preparation for flu
season, The COSHAR Foundation today urges parents to protect their children
against vaccine-preventable illnesses -- including the flu. Th...

BETHESDA, Md., March 13, 2007--New evidence suggests that if you
could choose your parents, you could reduce your risk of
cardiovascular disease. Researchers from the long-standing
Framingham Heart Study (FHS), a program of the National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Insti...

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Since its founding in 1970 by parents of children with type 1 diabetes, JDRF has awarded more than $1.3 billion to diabetes research, including more than $100 million in FY2009, including ...

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...udy was done in 1961 on a 7-year-old girl who passed away from heart failure with atransferrinemia. The half-normal levels of transferrin in her parents ' bloodstream supported the notion that this disorder is transferred in an autosomal recessive pattern. [1] Atransferrinemia was reported in on...

..., because of either error or malfeasance, are interchanged with each other at birth or very soon therafter, leading them being unknowingly raised by parents who are not their biological parents. In real life, the occurrence of such a thing is highly improbable, with it having occurred, or having been asser...

... Study of Children with Cyanotic and Pallid Breath Holding Spells. Pediatrics February 2001
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An online Support Group for parents of Breath Holders has been started at http://groups.msn.com/BreathHoldingSpellsSupportGroup/
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Parents expect to pass on their eye or hair color, their knobby knees or their big feet to their children through their genes. But they don't expect to pass on viruses through those same genes.
New research from the University of Rochester Medical Center shows that some parents pass on the huma...

A new study in the September issue of the Journal of Lipid Research suggests an unusual form of inheritance may have a role in the rising rate of diabetes, especially in children and young adults, in the United States.
DNA is the primary mechanism of inheritance; kids get half their genes from...

In 2003, haddock on Georges Bank experienced the largest baby boom ever documented for the stock, with an estimated 800 million new young fish entering the population. With typical annual averages of 50 to 100 million new fish in the last few decades, fisheries biologists have been puzzled by the ...

Scientists investigating the reasons why early humans the so-called hominins began walking upright say its unlikely that the need to carry children was a factor, as has previously been suggested.
Carrying babies that could no longer use their feet to cling to their parents in the way that you...

A new book designed for parents helps them better understand the diseases their children could face and the weapons to fight them, while offering practical advice for preventing infections in their kids without going overboard.
Germ Proof Your Kids: The Complete Guide to Protecting (without Ov...

Predictive genetic testing for adult-onset diseases, including cancer, is generally discouraged until the age at which interventions are believed to be helpful. Yet, many children of BRCA mutation carriers learn of their parents genetic test results many years before preventive interventions are ...

CHICAGO, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Alternative Reproductive Resources
(ARR), a leading Chicago-based agency that brings together intended
parents, egg donors and surrogate mothers, has announced a program designed
to remove some of the pressure from the egg donor selection process.
Called Exten...

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Parents of children with
autism often grapple with a bewildering array of questions and choices:
"Did I do something to cause the disorder? Could it be genetic? What is it
like to be a child with autism? Are there new medications or therapies that
migh...

Couples can choose child's gender with less ethically charged method at Reproductive Science Center of the San Francisco Bay Area
SAN RAMON, Calif., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to growing numbers of couples who want to choose the sex of their next child, the Reproductive Science Cente...

...ds With Heart National Association for Children's Heart Disorders, Inc. Michelle L. Rintamaki, Director of Kids With Heart, stated, "We want to inform parents of children with congenital heart defects about this new surgical device that reduces the risks associated with adhesions during repeat open-heart sur...

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